Joanna Biggin (Vos)

After (many) years in B2B Tech PR focusing on enterprise mobility, I'm now actually working in it! Personal account, but more at:

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@VirginAtlantic hi, I’ve tried everything to add a recent flight to my account to get the points but the system refuses to recognise it. Can someone please help me?!

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@Daniel_Sugarman Good luck, Daniel. Good luck.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

In case you’ve not seen @antisemitism @JewishNewsUK @JewishChron . Police claimed not to know what “intifada” even meant, which is a surprise after 18 months of marches.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

Police refused to act on calls for Intifada in the City just now; apparently the Courts found it could have a “peaceful” meaning so wasn’t an offence. Didn’t feel very peaceful to me, but then it’s just my “perception” that “resistance is justified” supports terrorism.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

Police refused to act on calls for Intifada in the City just now; apparently the Courts found it could have a “peaceful” meaning so wasn’t an offence. Didn’t feel very peaceful to me, but then it’s just my “perception” that “resistance is justified” supports terrorism.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@emmahaslett I used to work on a telco’s press office and I can assure you they ALL did this!

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@mcookie123 Well that would certainly have solved the ‘taking themselves just a little too seriously’ problem… 😂

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

I think maybe the river’s too long #Paris2024 #OlympicGames #OpeningCeremony #BoringAF

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@tnewtondunn I’ve just read your Standard piece and am doing exactly the same, for the same reasons (as is my husband); I’m feeling vindicated, having read your piece, thank you! I did a politics degree and used to be deeply engaged - it’s all incredibly depressing.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

Who can explain @askryanair charges?! I bought a family ticket with ‘free seats for children <12’, but paid for my kids, and chose included seats but still had a charge for a seat. Any ideas, please?

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

Who can explain @Ryanair charges?! I bought a family ticket with ‘free seats for children <12’, but paid for my kids, and chose included seats but still had a charge for a seat. Any ideas?

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@implausibleblog @AldiUK I don’t understand people saying you shouldn’t do this; Sainsbury’s actively encouraged packing bags as you go when they launched their scanners - it makes life significantly easier, reduces queues and makes shopping much quicker!

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

I’d love to see some @onepeloton stats on hashtags and hi-fives. I used to get at least one hi-five a ride, until I added #BringThemHomeNow to my Leaderboard name. Where did everyone go?! #QuietAntisemitism #Hostages #Hamas #ShouldNotBeControversial #Antisemitism

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

Thank you @YardSalePizza #HitherGreen! Rapidly become a firm favourite in our house, and your dip game was extra strong tonight - so appreciated! #GarlicIsGreat #ThanksForSavingMeWhenIForgotToAddDip! #LocalHeroes ;-)

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

⁦@OffMenuOfficial⁩ looks like someone in Bratislava has been listening, and thought they’d get away with stealing your idea, ⁦@EdGambleComedy⁩ #JamesAcaster

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@AddisonLeeHelp I already did

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

Wow @AddisonLeeHelp. You were 90 minutes late, but have the audacity to charge ME a late fee?! No thanks. You’re so unreliable these days I don’t think we’ll meet again, but I will take a refund on that wait fee, please.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@AddisonLeeHelp Booking reference #636028

[David Baddiel @Baddiel]

Jews don’t count.

[Joanna Biggin (Vos) @joannavos]

@JakeWSimons @afneil Last night I was told by ‘friends’ at dinner I was “divisive” for raising the October 7th attacks, & they didn’t want to “mix religion and politics with wine”. I only asked them why there was silence after Hamas’ terrorist atrocities - they didn’t even condemn them. Divisive.

[Zac Goldsmith @ZacGoldsmith]

Yesterday I met survivors of the Kibbutz massacre of Oct 7. I asked a mother, a long time peace advocate, if her views had changed. She said no… the terrorists had taken her friends & family. She would not let them take her humanity.

Today I watched footage of that depravity. What I witnessed was at the very outer limits of the depths to which humankind can occasionally descend.

Then I saw people minimising it here on twitter, excusing it as an inevitable response (as if torturing and burning innocent kids is an impulse these people cannot possibly be expected to resist).

I recalled the images we’ve all seen of heaving crowds of ordinary Gazans crying with joy at the sight of dismembered Jewish women, screaming ‘God is Great’, just as the murderers did when they were killing innocent children (how little they must think of God if they imagine he welcomes this depravity).

I think of the Hamas commanders, sitting in Qatar with their stolen billions demanding that Oct 7 is repeated over and over… of commanders deliberately putting their own innocents in the path of bombs, just for PR.

I think of people in the west demanding that we don’t ‘dehumanize’ Hamas (as if we could dehumanise them more than they do themselves), demanding Israel halt efforts to defeat Hamas, remove its fences (even after seeing what happens when the fences are breached)

Today I saw what ‘from the river to the sea’ means. People can gaslight all they like but they know. We all do. If you can't demand the end of Hamas, you are not interested in peace. It's as simple as that.